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Subject(s)

• Epic poetry, Latin—History and criticism [Browse]
• Lucan 39-65—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Valerius Flaccus, Gaius active 1st century—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius—Criticism, Textual [Browse]

Editor

• Schwameis, Christoph [Browse]
• Söllradl, Bernhard [Browse]

Series

• Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 102. [More in this series]
• Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millennium studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E. ; Band 102 [More in this series]

Summary note

This anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast between genre theory and practice, the interplay of genre interference and intertextuality, and the tension between convention and innovation. The focus is on the relationship of post-Augustan epic poetry to the earlier tradition, i.e. to authoritative predecessors such as Homer, Virgil and Ovid. The self-positioning of later poets in relation to the canon often goes hand in hand with an endeavour to reconfigure traditional elements: By omitting, varying or exaggerating aspects typical of the genre, their works enter into a dialogue with the earlier epics, permanently subverting the audience's horizons of expectation. The integration of non-genre discourses plays a central role here: modern literary concepts for analysing genre interference are critically evaluated in the anthology and incorporated into the interpretation in a reflective manner. The methodological range and innovative approaches in this volume make an important contribution to deepening and expanding the current state of research.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

Eight selections in German, two selections in English.

Contents

• Zusammenfassungen der Kapitel / Christoph Schwameis, Bernhard Söllradl
• Metareflexionen zum Phänomen der 'Gattungsmischung' im nachvergilischen Epos / Annemarie Ambühl
• non aliam viam. Die Ausweglosigkeit der Erzählung und der Anspruch des Epos bei Lucan / Markus Kersten
• Cato amator: generic hybridity, monstrous transgressions, and elegiac emasculation in Lucan's Libyan tale (Bellum civile 9) / Sophie E. Seidler
• Das Epos auf Abwegen? Elegie, Hyperepisierung und der Sog der Tragödie bei Valerius Flaccus / Bernhard Söllradl
• Das Epos auf der Bühne? Zu dramatischen Zügen der Thebais des Statius / Gottfried E. Kreuz
• 'To boldly go where no woman has gone before'. Argias metaphorische Katabasis im zwölften Buch von Statius' Thebais / Andreas Heil
• Unwandelbarkeit im Wandelbaren: Achills Reden in Statius' Achilleis / Jan Telg genannt Kortmann
• Statius' literary circus: a concentric system of genres in Silvae 4,7 / Dániel Kozák
• Über die Bezüge zwischen Senecas Schrift De providentia und Silius Italicus' Punica / Forian Schaffenrath
• Poesis ancilla philosophiae - Teuthras' Gesänge und die Poetik der Punica / Ferdinand Stürner.

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ISBN

• 9783110783988 ((hardcover))
• 3110783983 ((hardcover))

OCLC

1394061522

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